For the last several posts I have been discussing the top 5 reasons you should have your references professionally checked. Today we will look at the 5th and final reason:
Reason 5
Your reference contact may no longer work for the company. Many job-seekers make the mistake of not staying in close contact with the person they intend to use for a reference. You need to be sure that that person is still there to respond to inquiries. If the reference is no longer there, a reference checker may be shuffled though the system and end up with someone who won’t cast them in such a positive light.
Throughout Allison & Taylor’s 30 years as a reference checking and reference consulting company, we have heard it all… discrimination in many forms, references explaining the relationships / sleeping habits of former employees, HR Managers refusing to comment until the “litigation is complete” and Board Members who say “Are you sure he listed me as a reference?”
You stand a better chance of gaining employment when you know exactly what your references are saying.
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